My ubuntu (14.04 LTS) laptop does not automatically pick up my BQ ubuntu phone when connecting with a USB cable.
Is it possible to transfer files between laptop and phone by cable and how is it done?
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Here's the situation:
I'm working on a public computer. I want to process some data using a program installed on my remote Ubuntu computer. I can access the Ubuntu terminal through SSH on my phone, ...

I have a Samsung NP530U3B, long time ago i installed ubuntu on it (Just ubuntu) and i installed it on the HDD (500GB), this computer has an SSD drive and i want to move the installation to the SSD but ...

First of all, my apologies: I've seen a tons of forums related to this topic, but nowhere did I see a solution to this problem.
I've switched to Linux only recently and my biggest issue about it is ...

When I write data to an USB device (like a memory stick or a external HDD) Ubuntu shows the data being transfered at a very high rate, it is done very fast. But then, when Ubuntu says its done, the ...

I have a desktop and a laptop computer and both have UBUNTU 14.04. I have bought the laptop a month ago. All of my data like movies, songs etc stored in the desktop. I want to move all of these data ...

I'm trying to make a safe workstation PC for sensitive data using Ubuntu 14.04.
No user should have the right to: print, connect a USB flash drive to transfer files, send files via email or install ...

I'm trying to log in as admin to a Joomla site of mine. I was really lazy and always relied on Firefox to remember my login info. I've recently had to replace the hard drive in my laptop. I bought an ...

I just installed Ubuntu on my Dell laptop. Trying to re-install some MOBI and various other files to the desktop that were previously on the machine. I figured out how to right-click and move to the ...

Ive got an iPhone 5 running iOS 7. I want to transfer the music from the iphone to my Ubuntu and be able to play them locally on my computer without plugging in my iPhone.
So, the simple question is, ...

I'm about to install on my primary PC (tower PC) KUbuntu. For the moment I have Win7 installed. On this one I have 6 HDD : 1X SSD (for the system), 2X HDD of 3TB, 2X HDD of 500GB and 1X HDD of 1TB. ...

I got gnome-bluetooth in Ubuntu 14.04 to send some data via bluetooth. It functions perfectly fine with recent Android Smartphones (see pic 1) but I did not manage to send something to a (paired) Mac ...

I'm only getting 800 kB/s over the wireless network. I can get over 1 MB/s with torrents on either computer. Shouldn't I be getting at least that when transferring files? I just shared a folder and am ...

I want to transfer some files from a PC with Windows 8 to my laptop with Ubuntu14.04 via WiFi Lan.But I don't know what to do. I already can connect to internet via the WiFi network of my modem-router ...

I have a lenovo u310 touch laptop. It has an 25GB internal SSD in which I have Ubuntu 13.10 installed. When I transfer data from my SSD to my HDD I get very slow speeds, along the lines of 65KB/s. If ...

Sorry for asking what is most probably an already answered question.
I have 2 machines running 12.04 (desktop and a laptop) and I want to move nearly 50gig of files from one to the other in the most ...

I would like to know how to get my files( Music, Videos, Etc..) to be on Ubuntu when I get rid of Windows OS.
From reading this site I get the impression that if I completely use Ubuntu as my Os and ...

Copying (or moving) files in parallel can degrade so much the performance.
I usually need to copy large amount of files over network using the nautilus (using stuff like smb:// or sftp:// urls).
The ...

When I try to download various files from various hdd`s hosted on my Ubuntu 13.10 server, I get a maximum of 60Mbps. These files were downloading with arround 330Mbps on my old server. What could be ...

I have a file server that seconds as a media centre. Lets call the server Barton. It has 2 external hard drives plugged into it. It also constantly has video files playing on it which are outputting ...

So I have a windows computer that is continuously collecting data for a physics experiment. The data is saved in a text file for which each new event is appended in a new line.
Every-time I need to ...